On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Frank Wierzbicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Greg Ewing wrote: >> Implementations are also permitted to restrict namespace dictionaries to >> only accept string keys (I believe Jython does this for performance reasons >> - CPython just optimised the hell out of normal dictionaries that happen to >> only contain string keys instead). > Jython's current version (2.2) and back did indeed restrict these > dictionaries to accept string keys only, but future versions will > allow non-string keys (the trunk version already does). Many > frameworks use non-string keys in these dictionaries.
I think that's laudable from a compatibility POV, but at the same time I think frameworks should rethink such usage and switch to strings containing non-identifier characters, e.g. '$' or '.' or some such convention. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
